The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-06-25
Cassidy VS.. Rauch.


of the public an explanation of some attacks
that have been made by the Mauch Chunk
Democrat, on niyself and the County Commits
sioncrs:
Something oyera month GgOit became tile duty
OF tic Commissioners to select three papers in
which to publish the Mercantile Appraisers
list The law required that one of the papers
should represent tile minority party of the two
principal parties in the county. This gave it to
the Ga=eiic as one of the papers, and the Com
missiOners selected the Wcathcrly Herald, the
summit Hill and LansfOrd Record, as the other
twe papers in which to print sand report. will
say here that the report is paid for by the State
and is worth from $3.50 to Sl9o to tie paper that
gets it. The immaculate Ranch was very anxi
otls to secure this fat and to do so he made Il
pilgrimage to HcisspOrt TO interview Commits
i0ner Arner. He then made a personal appeal
TO Commissioner Coll in the Commissioners Of
flee, and then attempted To bribc the Commits
sioners' Attoriiey with S25 to secure it for hlr.
Failing in all these attempts he LEFT, muttcring
threats against the Board. Although Rauch
had the County Auditors Annual Statement
printed In his paper for several weeks early in
tile year. he never discovered anything wrong
with the Commissioners, or their accounts until
he was refused this much desired job of print
ing Then he hypecritlcally assumes great So
licitude for the tax payers and pitches into the
Commissioners and their accounts; because they
refused him this fat" printing job. The more
efIectually to do this his first act was to garble
tie County Auditors report for the manifest pur
pose Of misleading the public TO believe there
was over $500 spent on County building repairs,
when the fact is, there was outside of plumbing
considerable less than 5000 spent for that pur-
pose.
The charge against the Commissioners is ex-
| tr;lyagance. and We viii here give them as put
| by the Democrat.
First. "Thcy have nearly doubled the salary
of their clerk" This charge the bepioordi has
| continued to harp on for several weeks This
charge affects me personally and in reply have
this to say: receive s75 per month. believe
my services are worth that amount and have
no apology to make for receiving It, The Com
missioners believe it TO be only ttir refriuncra,
ton and assure me they have no apology to
make for paying it. Mr.. IL. E.Schwartz received
over seventy dollars per month while he was
clerk III the Office and as far back rs 1878 J. G.
Dimmick received the same salary am now
getting, and James Struthcrs also received S7F
per month while he was Commissioners clerk
There is more work now in the Commissioners
Office than there ever was before, as it was since
| am in that office that the Commissioners have
been compelled 10 keep a record of all juda
mcnts and mortgages in their Office. Raucl
now assumes 10 think $40 per month enougi
Notwithstanding that he called Mr.. Beck, tn,
last Commissioners clerk, u "Chnaman'' be
cause he served for that amount, and de
nuunced the Riegel board us 'Chinese Coninis
sloners" because they paid so little.
Second. ''rhey have not stated the annua
public account in a manner that the public cogl'
be correctly Informed as 10 the manner IN whicl
the county funds have been SPENT The CON
missioners have nothing TO do with the annua
statement and Rauch knows this. The Commis
sioncrs submit all paper bills and accounts /
the County Auditors. The Auditors audit thes
and make their report and the Commissioner
5 have nothing 10 do with It, The last statemen
MAS audited and made by II. l.. Swartz, II. Il
Butler and PAU Buck. These gentlemen wer
under oath when trey audited the accounts
The last two are Republicans and could have IL
object IN shielding a Democratic board of Con
missioners in doing anything wrong We believ
\ they are men who have the respect and col
ndenee Of the people, Notwithstanding Raech
slurs. :.
I-TIhrd "They have more than donbIed til
d ypense OF advertising the Annual Statemen
;. identity in expectation of Winning the supper
OF the solid local press for reelection" This
not true The last report was printed I'M ever
paper m the county for Sl6s more than when
u was published only IN three papers one OF while
was the March Chunk Democrat. The ilrst ye,
+ iucse Commissioners gave the statement
:, riiree papers. Rauch charged the county 81:
for Publishing Il. Mr.. Mortimer published I'll
account that year aud knew what Rauch Ia
c charged. His bnr was s2l less than Rauch an
said he received full legal rates and eond charl
no more. u he had charged the same as Rauc
the difference In having all the papers print I'll
/, report would be stll less
u The Commissioners fixed sT5 as the amount
be paid FOR printing the annual statement aI
& had il published In all the papers. This anon
n was SJl less than Rauch charged the county f
the same work Rauch would like TO have
monopoly Of the printing 50 he could charge
y couple Of prices. The Commissioners thougl
n there were other citizens beside the limitt
number Who read the Bemoerei that had rig
IL 10 see the County Statement so they published
In IN other papers.
Fourth. "They have inersased the tax ri
from to . mills and notwithstanding the lar
m increase there was less balance In the treasu
at the end Of the year than there was at the eI
IN Of the year when the tax rate OF the form
Board was only mills" The last or as Il "
known as the "Rlegei Board Of Commissioner
'e which lis conceded by everyone was We
~ economical Board levied for their nrst two yea
e, Ia eiilee and mills respectively making
their hrst two years q total Of II mills I
an present board which has been in onice Tor q
!. years levied for the first year mills and for
second MILLS making for their irst two year
4 total oi mills or mills less than the very eco
omieal Riesel BoaId Tor their corresponding q